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G. A. WILBUR.

PENCIL CASE AND SHARPBNER.

No. 326,697. Patented Sept. 22, 1885..

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ATTORNEYS.

UNITED STATES PATENT FFICE.

GREENLEAF A. l/VILBUR, OF SKOVVHEGAN, MAINE, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND CHARLES HENRY \VILBUR, OF SAME PLACE.

PENCIL CASE AND SHARPENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 326,697, dated September 22, 1885.

Application filed August 7, 1885.

To all whom it may concern..-

Be it known that I, GREENLEAF AUGUSTUS \VILBUR, of Skowhegan, in the county of Somerset and State of Maine, have invented anew and Improved Pencil Case and Sharpener, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to a simple, inexpensive, and effective device forincasing the sharp end of a pencil to protect its point, and also for sharpening the pencil, when required.

The invention consists in certain novel fea tures of construction and combinations of parts of the combined pencil case and sharpener, all as hereinafter fully described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure l is a perspective view of my improved pencil case and sharpener with the pencil in position in the case. Fig. 2 is a transverse section taken on the line 00 as, Fig. 1; and Fig. 3 is an enlarged perspective view of the sharpener removed from the pencilcase.

The letter A indicates the pencilcase, which has a general tubular form, preferably round, and, as shown, is open at both ends, so that a rubber or eraser, B, may be placed in one end in the usual or any approved way, and so that a pencil, 0, may be passed point first into the other end of the case, as shown clearly in Fig. 1.

The pencilcase A has a side slit or slot, D, at one end, said slot being enlarged at its base or inner portion, as at D, so that the pencilsharpener E may be inserted in and be firmly held by the case A, as presently described.

The sharpener E has a tapering tubular form, and has an enlargement or rib, 6, along one side, in which rib the knife or cutter F of the sharpener is held, so that its edge lies directly over a side slot, 6, of the sharpener, which slot forms the throat through which the cuttings of the pencil pass from the knife to the outside of the pencil case and sharpener. The larger or outer end of the sharpener E snugly fits the inside of the pencil-case A, and the rib e of the sharpener gradually increases in height from the inner toward the outer end (No model.)

of the sharpener, and at its outer end the rib projects beyond the end of the body of the sharpener, as at c, Fig. 3, so that when the sharpener E is placed small end first into the 5 back end of the pencil-case A and is forced inward the rib e of the sharpener will pass through the slot D of the case, and until the forward end or part of the rib strikes the end d of the part D of the slot D, and the opposite 6o rounding side parts, a a, of the pencil-case which is formed from suitable elastic nietal will clasp the opposite sides of the rib eof the sharpener, while the opposite shoulders, d d,

at the outer end of the enlargement D of the slot D spring in, so as to look back of the end of the body of the sharpener and behind the projection c of the rib c of the sharpener. The sharpener thus willfirmly beheld to place in the slot D D of the pencil-case and far enough toward the outer end of the case to allow the case to clasp the sharpened end of the pencil 0 back of its point, so asto protect the lead or point from breaking off, and yet so as to allow the pencil to be forcibly pushed in and turned against the edge of the knife F, to sharpen the pencil at any time required, as will readily be understood. By removing the rubber B from the case A a push-rod of any kind may be passed in through the outer end 80 of the case to force the sharpenerEbodily from the case to allow its knife F to be sharpened,

or to insert a new sharpener inthe case, or to allow a new case to be used with an old sharpener, as occasion may require.

The rubber B may not be used, and the sharpener-case A may then be made with an open or closed outer end, as may be preferred, and if the case be made with a closed end the sharpener may be forced from the case by 0 pressure on the inner face of its projection e" at the outer end ofthe throat e ofthe sharpener.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is 9 5 l. A pencil case and sharpener comprising an elastic tubular case provided with a side slot at one end and a tapering tubular sharpener fitted with a knife or cutter and clamped in the case at the slot, substantially as herein set forth. IQO

2. A pencil case and sharpener comprising an elastic tubular case, A, provided with a slot,

D D, and a tapering tubular sharpener, E; provided with a rib, 6, having a throat, e, and a knife or cutter, F, set in said rib, and said sharpener held in'place at the slot of the case A, substantially as herein set forth.

3. A pencil case and sharpener comprising an elastietubular case, A, provided with a slot, D D, a tapering tubular sharpener, E, provided with a rib, 6, having a throat, e, and a 

